tick data and one minute bar data appear out of line (IBrokers)
Hi I have been working on the spread between Commonwealth Bank (CBA.ASX) and National Australia Bank (NAB.ASX). I was a bit confused by the performance of my dealing loop so I took out the spread movement from rqHistoricData 1 minute bars using the close and plotted it and also the spread derived from the tick data from reqMktData which is being used to drive my dealing algorithm. They are in the same ballpark but really rather different. The graph shows the position best and can be viewed at this url: http://www.organicfoodmarkets.com.au/bar-n-tick-plots.pdf I am not experienced with this so I wondered if this sort of discrepancy is typical or am I just making a mess of it. If they are typical so it makes setting trigger levels a bit difficult as mine are derived from bar data but implemented by tick data movement. I'm surprised the tick data doesn't fall within the one minute bar so any comments would be of great interest. Am I better to only work with tick data for example? Stephen Choularton PhD, FIoD